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🎙️Team Huddle: Election Attacks, Aging Leaders, and Local Wins
Rob Richie and Expand Democracy Fellow Nivea Krishnan sit down for one of Expand Democracy’s periodic team check-ins — no outside guest this time, just two people steeped in this work talking through the moment. (Senior Fellow Eveline Dowli...
Better ways to fill vacancies, AI and voting rights, and timely links
Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 3. We typically release every two weeks and highlight promising pro-democracy ideas and local, national, and global news. And don’t miss our complimentary Democracy Lab podcast with a st...
Electoral Innovations, From Rewiring Redistricting to Modern Voter Guides
What’s it like to run against a $5 million outside money machine in 2026?
Rob sat down with Sam Wang, Professor of Neuroscience at Princeton, who has spent two decades building tools to diagnose what’s broken in American democracy: the Pri...
Beyond America’s 250, rethinking how to hold public meetings, and timely links
Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 3, written this week by Rob and Eveline. Typically released every two weeks, we highlight promising pro-democracy ideas and local, national, and global news. And don’t miss our complemen...
Bringing Equality to the Legislative Process
The New Ideas Corner is an open invitation for readers, practitioners, scholars, organizers, and democracy-builders to share pro-democracy ideas, especially early-stage or underexplored ones. This is a place for constructive experimentation...
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Expand Democracy seeks to catalyze and support action by organizations and elected officials in support of electoral reform solutions. We support existing reform efforts and draw attention to ways of advancing new ideas and strategies.
Rob Richie leads Expand Democracy. As head of FairVote, he created the partisan voting index, designed Alaska’s Top Four system, and advanced the Fair Representation Act, National Popular Vote, automatic voter registration, and ranked choice voting.
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